Most undergrad CS students go through an algorithms course and understand a bubble sort is inherently slower than a quick sort, no amount of optimization will get you past the fundamental n^2 time complexity. You can…
“Batch is the primitive”
Yeah, but what if we are at the point we don’t need machinists any more? The rich get richer, even if you’re enriched solely with an above-average intelligence. The bar for break even just moved up. If the US thought 13…
That relationship is (was?) a proxy for two mature superpowers. The dynamic between the mid-tier powers in the Middle East is not that similar, IMO. With the US realigning, I expect to see more activity in that…
It makes an invasion of Iran less likely, but it also probably means more conflict, not less. Acquiring nukes rebalances the power between Iran and the US and its neighbors. Roughly equal pairs of states fight more than…
For humans hallucinations are a particular class of error, so I find hallucination more descriptive than either error or bug. I also think it’s relevant because a hallucinator often doesn’t recognize that the…
No disagreement here; I felt countless smaller problems leading up to the final blow was implied.
I think this is the correct take. And until we have an AI Hiroshima it’ll be difficult to get the international community to work together. It’ll take rogue AI (or AI-powered group) disabling a significant world power…
The “elements for randomness” are carve-outs for the parts of territory the map can’t contain. The more granular the map, the larger relative proportion that falls into that set. Nobody can predict the layout of my…
The currently accepted answer to that is “the territory appears to be randomized” (quantum mechanics)
Trust as delegation is an interesting angle; if you’ve not read Team Topologies I’d recommend it. These topics are treated pretty well.
> is advocating for and what doesn't tend to happen in dysfunctional organizations. Agreed the observations are interesting, and that’s what is being advocated for, I just don’t think top-down vs bottom-up is the axis…
An aspect that’s missing from this analysis is that in militaries and in tech startups a “squad” or “two-pizza team” are empowered to make decisions for their local domain because they have the real-time context. I have…
So the wiggle room for efficiency is in the mechanism for counteracting yaw? Either the weight or energy expense of running a tail rotor or quadrotors or variable pitch mounts (or some other clever mechanism)?
I think performance generally trades along a different axis: open-world vs closed-world assumptions. There are many cases where closed-world assumptions may confer performance benefits, such as tree-shaking, whole…
> This is about guiding principles, about personal liberty, and about freedom from tyranny. The point he’s trying to make, as I understand it, is that states adapt. They don’t just throw up their hands and say “guess we…
[dead]
No disagreement in principle; in practice taking that approach in Zig is safer than in Rust, because in Rust it’s “all or nothing.”
I agree that it’s not inherent to emitting machine code but I do think it reflects a different set of priorities. In extremely high performance code you use different data structures and algorithms and change your…
It’s probably too little too late in the age of Claude… C# grew all those features over time. It had to leave syntax to support old patterns to preserve backwards compatibility. Thus, the syntax has grown a bit noisy…
No, I’m not. I’m explicitly differentiating between those two perspectives and which corporations care about. “Blame” doesn’t exist in most corporate vocabularies.
It’s possible. Effects allow more aspects of computation to be represented/generalized, but as the author has noted concrete implementations have already been tried in some cases. Rust’s ownership, Java’s exceptions,…
Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again. Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics, and the only consequence that matters…
I feel the author’s pain. LLMs take over right as we’re finally figuring out the unifying models and algorithms for programming languages. Some time back I went on a tour of the fort at Dry Tortugas. Largest brick…
I buy that markets are like a traveling salesman problem. “Impossible” in the general case, but good enough could algorithms exist. Where’s the economist formulation of that algorithm? What are the policy implications…
Most undergrad CS students go through an algorithms course and understand a bubble sort is inherently slower than a quick sort, no amount of optimization will get you past the fundamental n^2 time complexity. You can…
“Batch is the primitive”
Yeah, but what if we are at the point we don’t need machinists any more? The rich get richer, even if you’re enriched solely with an above-average intelligence. The bar for break even just moved up. If the US thought 13…
That relationship is (was?) a proxy for two mature superpowers. The dynamic between the mid-tier powers in the Middle East is not that similar, IMO. With the US realigning, I expect to see more activity in that…
It makes an invasion of Iran less likely, but it also probably means more conflict, not less. Acquiring nukes rebalances the power between Iran and the US and its neighbors. Roughly equal pairs of states fight more than…
For humans hallucinations are a particular class of error, so I find hallucination more descriptive than either error or bug. I also think it’s relevant because a hallucinator often doesn’t recognize that the…
No disagreement here; I felt countless smaller problems leading up to the final blow was implied.
I think this is the correct take. And until we have an AI Hiroshima it’ll be difficult to get the international community to work together. It’ll take rogue AI (or AI-powered group) disabling a significant world power…
The “elements for randomness” are carve-outs for the parts of territory the map can’t contain. The more granular the map, the larger relative proportion that falls into that set. Nobody can predict the layout of my…
The currently accepted answer to that is “the territory appears to be randomized” (quantum mechanics)
Trust as delegation is an interesting angle; if you’ve not read Team Topologies I’d recommend it. These topics are treated pretty well.
> is advocating for and what doesn't tend to happen in dysfunctional organizations. Agreed the observations are interesting, and that’s what is being advocated for, I just don’t think top-down vs bottom-up is the axis…
An aspect that’s missing from this analysis is that in militaries and in tech startups a “squad” or “two-pizza team” are empowered to make decisions for their local domain because they have the real-time context. I have…
So the wiggle room for efficiency is in the mechanism for counteracting yaw? Either the weight or energy expense of running a tail rotor or quadrotors or variable pitch mounts (or some other clever mechanism)?
I think performance generally trades along a different axis: open-world vs closed-world assumptions. There are many cases where closed-world assumptions may confer performance benefits, such as tree-shaking, whole…
> This is about guiding principles, about personal liberty, and about freedom from tyranny. The point he’s trying to make, as I understand it, is that states adapt. They don’t just throw up their hands and say “guess we…
[dead]
No disagreement in principle; in practice taking that approach in Zig is safer than in Rust, because in Rust it’s “all or nothing.”
I agree that it’s not inherent to emitting machine code but I do think it reflects a different set of priorities. In extremely high performance code you use different data structures and algorithms and change your…
It’s probably too little too late in the age of Claude… C# grew all those features over time. It had to leave syntax to support old patterns to preserve backwards compatibility. Thus, the syntax has grown a bit noisy…
No, I’m not. I’m explicitly differentiating between those two perspectives and which corporations care about. “Blame” doesn’t exist in most corporate vocabularies.
It’s possible. Effects allow more aspects of computation to be represented/generalized, but as the author has noted concrete implementations have already been tried in some cases. Rust’s ownership, Java’s exceptions,…
Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again. Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics, and the only consequence that matters…
I feel the author’s pain. LLMs take over right as we’re finally figuring out the unifying models and algorithms for programming languages. Some time back I went on a tour of the fort at Dry Tortugas. Largest brick…
I buy that markets are like a traveling salesman problem. “Impossible” in the general case, but good enough could algorithms exist. Where’s the economist formulation of that algorithm? What are the policy implications…